Transrapid Test Facility Emsland - TVE (German Maglev Train)

[MasterJHT]

The only problem with the Maglev, the track looks ugly :\

[dvdvideo1234]

BEAUTIFUL I am in LOVE <3

[spartan117ism]

TR08 FROM 1999-2006 R.I.P

[carldepp]

come on California, i am tired of driving!!! Shit,...!!!

[bowserjunior13]

How fast is 500km.?

[ohlsen1973]

@bowserjunior13 500 kph is 500 kph

[jplully]

@bowserjunior13 300 miles.

[Moepabc]

Schade, dass in Deutschland niemand mehr den Transrapid haben will...

[v8dhyucc]

There was announcement to give up this plan in 27 in March, 2008.

[pjwithbread8]

reminds me of the monorails at disney world :p except hella faster :)

[sideslide23]

there is a slight chance of having this type of train going from Las Vegas to Anaheim C.A. so you can ride this to Disneyland from Las Vegas.

[jeffsandychelsea]

@sideslide23 The ultimate entertainment train. lol The parents get off at the LV stop and the kids continue to ride to Disneyland

[sideslide23]

@jeffsandychelsea its not really a entertainment train, this trian is build to travel fast, if you perfer to travel faster, otherwise there launching a passenger train calls the Vegas X train soon, Unlike this and the Desert Xpress, the X train wont travel high speed, It will travel 50 to 70 MPH on the existing tracks, the vegas X train will feature a coach cars with flat screen TV and Table, a sport bar car, and the entertainment cars with Black jack table and slots machine. and runs by diesel.

[CHRIS1974100]

Maglev is the future transportation in the coming millenium

[trokoro]

This train is more friendly to enviroment than the conventional train because it doesn´t need rails on the surface of the earth so animals can cross from one side to the other without problem, while in a conventional train or superhighway the land is cut and divided and the result is that thousands of animals (and persons) are killed every year.

[alexkarcher]

I don't get seeing some germany people saying bullshits about this train, really. The accident happened in a test line cuz someone forgot a weagon on the rail. Test line = low worry about security, low sensors to detect things on the rail. That's why it happened.

This tech is the future, and you control it, so thank god for having people able to do something like that despite some conservator people that don't understand the technology.

[kirkconway]

Smooth,, Fast, and Quiet,

[Tyrone191]

there is no driver it is completly run by computers.

[sideslide23]

some of them are and some of them are not, actually its control by the controller at the command center at the station so when the train aproach the station than the driver at the comand center take controll of the electrical magnetic to slow the train stop the train, and accelerated so the driver doesn't ride the train, they sit at the command center.

[ya13er]

I want to drive it, what qualifications, should I have to start driving this fast train...I love being fast, do you know?

[bazzala]

there were an crash, alot of people died, u cant drive it anymore, its gone

[ya13er]

you mean they stopped working by it?

[bazzala]

its completely destroyed... and i don't think they'll rebuild it, 23 persons were killed by the crash.. i don't think anyone would drive it again..^^

watch?v=EJ6WRTXIfW0

[ya13er]

yes dear! it's really horrible and they may don't make another line... anyways I love Germany and I love Ice train, I plan to leave Egypt and live in Germany :) I love frankfurt and Munich

[shtzi]

Jes, but... TVE09 is in prodiuction RIGHT NOW.

Means... 2-3 jears, and then... maybe TVE 09 will drive on a regular/pendular line...?

Hope for it!

[NukeReactor]

dude..the crash was due to human error...infact most of the accidents are coz of human error...how the hell is maglev operating so well in shanghai then?

[bazzala]

watch?v=EJ6WRTXIfW0

[zf90db]

They have already built a new train, so they can continue testing the system. But you can't drive it, it is controlled by a computer ;-)

[ya13er]

haha..!! what about ICE?

[internationalantifa]

ICE you can drive.

[YuDupe]

with the actual "economy crisis", why not enforcing a transrapid-net between the ten largest metropolitan areas in germany, with connections to outer countries, as a way to preserve jobs AND have a clean way of traveling in 10-20 years. and the biggest advantage, like in japan, would be, that with these new high-speed-only tracks, there will be no more any delays for passengers.

But NO, lets push as much money as we can into polluting city-to-city flights and kid the passengers.

[YuDupe]

it's dead, because the germans (politicians and companies) are total morons (i am german). over 30 years, siemens and thyssenkrupp developed a technology, heavily founded be the government, never having any need to develop it in a (cheap) way, so that one day, it could be actually used. it was always a toy for the two companies, sold by the german tax payer. plus, the german railroad company deutsche bahn never even considered (in public), to use the transrapid technology.

[cattleman6420012000]

Such a shame.Don't forget the Maglev was first developed in Germany. Such a shame they stopped funding for it.That terrible accident was just bad luck, it could have happened anywhere. The Germans are more safety conscious than most.

[ericssson]

the maglev is dead in germany

[Rowland888]

is it dead? how come?

[doofinovi]

no further funds from the german government after the transrapid hit a service car on the tracks at fullspeed where people died. rip.

[originalrhombus]

It's dead because it's hideously expensive, not because of a test track crash.

[mickeydyl]

Yeah, Maglev trains are very expensive, especially if you live in a country that prioritizes the budget on weapons and prison construction!

[originalrhombus]

There is one major problem plaguing *all* forms of maglev transport that the proponents conveniently ignore. They are too bloody expensive. This is why only one Transrapid line has been built so far, and why the Japanese haven't built one at all. Until that changes, this will be an expensive showpiece, and nothing more.

[tobbeb84]

Imagination the birds! What a mess, I thought it was enough with the "paste" of bugs on the bumper of the car. After been doing about a 100mph in the damp summer of course.

[raligeramira]

The Japanese Maglev is much faster.

And it can run on normal lines and on maglev.

Transrapid ist schrott

[Kotbaum]

Du bist schrott.

[internetcafe111]

The available commercial speed for the Transrapd exceeds minimum(!) 550 km/h. Only depends of the length of the guideway. You must consider acceleration, deceleration and centrifugal stregth-limits set by the comfort to passengers, not by the type of maglev. The japanese maglev max. test speed is 581 km/h, this means perhaps a commercial speed around 400-450 km/h. Beside of this it's still not available for commercial use. It's in the stadium like the transrapid was in the early 80th.

[Sanpedranoazul]

A Shanghai version is available and is working already so well.

[mikesocoo]

i agree

[325350965]

The Japanese Maglev is not much faster and its not only about the speed.

If you really like the Japanese Maglev then go there and leave the Transrapid alone.

[originalrhombus]

It can run on normal lines? Not the last time I checked.

Where do people come up with this BS?

[7olusegun]

Can the German Transrapid really run on normal rails? How's that possible without wheels? If anything at all about maglev running on normal rails, I think the Japanese maglev is more soothed because it has (retractible) wheels.

[originalrhombus]

You're confused. The original poster claimed the Japanese maglev can "run on normal rails", which is patently false. If it can, it's not maglev.

[7olusegun]

Not So; If choosing between the two types of technology (i.e. between the German and the Japanese maglev trains), The Japanese maglev train is much more likely to be adapted to run on normal rails than its German counterpart because the latter is completely wheeless. Can a wheeless train run on normal rails? If you watch the Japanese maglev, you might notice it first runs on wheels (like a normal train) to about 140 km/hr before its wheels retracts and the maglev technology takes over.

[originalrhombus]

Maglev has one major strike against it: huge costs. The only commercial track of any real length in the world (the Shanghai Transrapid) was built with massive subsidies from both the German and Chinese governments. This is one of those projects like the Concorde: fancy, impressive, but insanely expensive and totally impractical. And that goes for both the JR maglev AND the Transrapid.

[7olusegun]

The Japanese maglev train is a "hybrid" which can run on normal rail on wheels (like a normal train), but at higher speeds, completely runs on magnetic technology (mutual electromagnetic repulsion) while its wheels retracts. Forget about any posters (which may confuse you well) and watch the Japanese maglev train on YouTube. Germany aint only the country with a long maglev test track. A "hybrid" maglev is better than a "non hybrid" one (to compensate for unexpected power failure).

[originalrhombus]

The question is not whether it's possible, but whether it's practical or whether it will ever happen. Keep in mind that JR test track as been around for at least as many years as the Siemens-Thyssen-Krupp track. Commercial implementations thus far? Zero.

Either way -- right now, the JR maglev doesn't run on any normal lines, nor has this ever been demonstrated.

[7olusegun]

I aint arguing or talking whether or not it's economically feasible or have ever been demonstrated on normal train rail(s). What I said is that the Japanese Maglev is more likely to be adapted (or suited) to run on normal rails than its German counterpart, if at all any of these different maglev types is to merge with already existing rails (probably to reduce costs).

[34gregory]

amazing technology i hope they bulid them everywhere the so green much better than planes amd cars

[marsamprepair]

that would suck crashing at like 247 miles an hour that would just suck

[whilliamwithh]

crashing at this speed, no one would have enough time to think it sucks, but you are right, that would just suck

[unrealjeff]

747 jet airplanes crash at over 247 mph though also

[tzoumbaesR]

I realy hope that they build it in munich. They used Billions of Euros to research it.

[ericssson]

they will build one now

[fidis]

what will happen to the train now? asking because 23 people were killed during the last test...

[smerlinare]

nice but i prefer good old steam trains!!!

[Cre7tiv]

Don't compare a TGV with the Transprapid. There is one century between !

[ekin1972]

I think TGV has proved maglev pointless!

[hansy555]

yes, but what if u need to go on job trips every week?

[hyderabadboy20]

i would prefer to go by a slow train.

i love watching tress mountain and rivers!